Archive for January, 2008

Accidental salad

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Last night, Iris’s pick for the week was mini-tonkatsu, which she saw in the new book Harumi’s Japanese Home Cooking. We had Harumi’s book from the library after learning about it on Lara Ferroni’s blog:

Udon with no shoes on

Of course, Iris and I immediately made the homemade udon, stomping the noodle dough with our bare […]

Something you may not know about me but will not really be surprised to learn

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I appear exactly once on Wikipedia:

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Bad to the bone

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

It’s not often that I am shocked by an article in the weekly food section, but this one from the Seattle P-I has me waiting for Ashton Kutcher to pop out.

When good food goes … bad (January 30):

There is a dark side to so-called “good foods.” The problem isn’t exactly […]

It’s good for you

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Want to know what I think of The Sneaky Chef and Deceptively Delicious? Raymond Sokolov has it covered:

Very few childhood bedwetters go off to college with rubber sheets. Picky eaters also mature, into omnivores. Judging by the crowds at restaurants I visit, they grow up into beef-cheek-gobbling yuppies with a yen for lemongrass […]

Gourmet and I

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Gourmet magazine debuted their new web site at Gourmet.com last week. There’s Francis Lam writing about Yunnan ham, Michael Pollan on food and science, and me on taking Iris to a steakhouse.

I’m going to be writing often for the new Gourmet. In addition to the steakhouse column, I wrote a review of Txori, a new […]